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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Madaba"”.
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Ceramic Architectural Models from the Madaba Plains Region: A Selected Art Historical Analysis
… models of Transjordan. The creation of the Madaba Plains Architectural Model Typology allows for a more streamlined categorization based on type and ornamentation and is easily adaptable as new data comes to light.</p>
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The relationship between the topographical mosaics of Provincia Arabia and the Madaba mosaic map.
… mosaic in the Church of the Map in Madaba. The corpus of ten topographical mosaics considered in this thesis has a relationship with the Madaba Mosaic Map in three areas: artistic origins, date and provenance, and function and meaning. The nature of this relationship has not been …
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Perception of Aquifer Depletion and the Effects of Land Use Change Across the Madaba Plain, Jordan
… altered the environment in a profound way. The Madaba Plain was chosen for this study due to the agricultural activities that take place there, as well as the proximity to a number of population centers. The purpose of the study is to examine how fragmentation of irrigated landscape has affected …
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Ancient Economic Complexity and Adaptation in the Semi-Arid Highlands of Jordan: A Zooarchaeological Study of the Early Bronze Age Through the Ottoman Period at Tell Madaba
… utilization by the peoples who inhabited Tell Madaba, a site located along the fertile plains of the Central Jordanian Plateau that has maintained a continuing urban character for some 5,000 years, during seven historical periods: the Early Bronze Age, the Iron Age II, the Late Hellenistic …
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Umm Meshrat I and II : two Late Neolithic sites along the Wadi ath-Thamad, Jordan
… survey area, approximately 20 km southeast of Madaba, Jordan. The survey team carried out surface collections and preliminary test probes at Umm Meshrat I and II during the 2001 season of the Wadi ath-Thamad project. The lithic and ceramic collections from both sites are the focus of this …
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Unsettling Times: land, political economy and protest in the Bedouin villages of central Jordan
… living in small villages around the town of Madaba, from two largely settled but still discursively Bedouin ‘ashā’ir (socio-political categories normally glossed in English as ‘tribes’); the Bani Sakhr and the Bani Hamida. I explore the ways in which these interlocutors imagine and anticipate …
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The Hellenistic and Roman Periods at Tell Hesban, Jordan
<p>The site of Tell Hesban, 9 km north of Madaba, Jordan, was excavated by Andrews University, in cooperation with the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (five seasons, 1968 to 1976).</p> <p>Evidence from the site suggests it was first occupied in Iron …
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Pottery Horizons of the Jalul Ceramic Assemblage in the Iron Age IIA-C from Square G4 in its Historical and Geographical Context
… and the Iron IIB forms found at Hesban and Madaba.</p>